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Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes in the naked bodies of men and women. He rarely conceived his human forms in attitudes of immobility or repose. Michelangelo became a painter so that he could express in a more malleable material what his titanesque soul felt, what his sculptor's imagination saw, but what sculpture refused him. Thus this admirable sculptor became the creator, at the Vatican, of the most lyrical and epic decoration ever seen: the Sistine Chapel. The profusion of his invention is spread over this vast area of over 900 square metres. There are 343 principal figures of prodigious variety of expression, many of colossal size, and in addition a great number of subsidiary ones introduced for decorative effect. The creator of this vast scheme was only thirty-four when he began his work. Michelangelo compels us to enlarge our conception of what is beautiful. To the Greeks it was physical perfection; but Michelangelo cared little for physical beauty, except in a few instances, such as his painting of Adam on the Sistine ceiling, and his sculptures of the Pietà. Though a master of anatomy and of the laws of composition, he dared to disregard both if it were necessary to express his concept: to exaggerate the muscles of his figures, and even put them in positions the human body could not naturally assume. In his later painting, The Last Judgment on the end wall of the Sistine, he poured out his soul like a torrent. Michelangelo was the first to make the human form express a variety of emotions. In his hands emotion became an instrument upon which he played, extracting themes and harmonies of infinite variety. His figures carry our imagination far beyond the personal meaning of the names attached to them.
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Publish dateDec 22, 2011
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MICHELANGELO
2MICHELANGELO
3Childhood
4The Medici Factor
5Homecoming and Travel
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6Inner Tension
7The Da Vinci Factor
8The Unprecedented Sculptor
9Domenico, Bologna.
10from the arca of San
11Domenico, Bologna.
12The Louvre, Paris.
13Florence.
14II, San Pietro in
15Lorenzo, Florence.
16Florence.
17The Architect
18Florence.
19View of the façade, design
20Nationale, Paris.
21Domenico Fontana in
22with tempera (watered
23Beyond Peerless Painting
24Chapel after
25Chapel, Vatican.
26Sistine Chapel, Vatican.
27Fresco. Sistine
28Chapel, Vatican.
29Pauline Chapel, Rome.
30Bargello, Florence.
31226 cm. Museo
32Milan.
33A Most Exceptional Individual
3441 x 57 cm. Casa
35Library, Windsor.
36Florence.
37pigment and grey
38Start of a three-year apprenticeship under Domenico Ghirlandaio.
391490 Death of Cardinal Bilhères shortly after completion of the Rome Pietà.
40Return to Florence and commission for David in marble.
41Return to Florence
421512 Unveiling of the new Sistine ceiling.
431523 Election of Clement VII (Giulio de’Medici)
441531 Noli me Tangere portfolio.
45Museum, London.
461542 Worksite start-up for the Pauline Chapel.
471547 Death of Vittoria Colonna, longtime friend and accomplished poetess, whom he
481550 Completion of the Pauline Chapel frescoes; start of the Florentine Pietà.
491552 Completion of the Capitoline stair.
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